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Charles JervasPortrait of Frances, Viscountess Scudamore in a Silver Dress & Blue Cloakc.1709-1719
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Portrait of Frances, Viscountess Scudamore in a Silver Dress and Blue Cloak c.1709-1719
By Charles Jervas (1675-1739)
This elegant and graceful portrait, presented by Titan Fine Art, was painted by Charles Jervas, who was in 1723 appointed to the post of King’s Painter by George I, and in 1725 to George II. Jervas was considered the supreme practitioner of female portraiture in the 1720s and 1730s and was the foremost successor to Sir Godfrey Kneller after the latter's death in 1723.
The sitter has been portrayed in a silver dress and an ermined-lined azure cape, seated beside a crown resting on a draped table. The subject is said to be Frances, Viscountess Scudamore (c.1684-1729). Born Francis Digby, she was the daughter of Simon Digby, 4th Baron Digby. Like so many other titled women at the early Georgian court who made prominent political marriages, she was an only surviving daughter who inherited a substantial part of her father's wealth, thus making the alliance an attractive and valuable business investment for the Scudamore family. It appears as though she was brought up in Coleshill, the house of her uncle William Digby, the 5th Baron Digby, and his wife Jane, as one of their own children, the couple also had four sons and eight daughters. In 1698, when she was fifteen, her uncle's cousin died and left him the estates concentrated around Sherborne Castle, in Dorset, a sprawling mansion originally built for Sir Walter Ralegh and greatly extended in the seventeenth century.
On 7th March 1706, our sitter married the English landowner and politician, James, 3rd Viscount Scudamore (c.1684-1716); her husband was her exact contemporary in age. The couple must have removed to Holme Lacy, the substantial estates in Herefordshire that the 3rd Viscount had inherited, along with the title, in 1697. Four years later, in 1710, Lady Scudamore's husband nearly died from injuries relating to a horrible fall from his horse, and after he recovered, he was noticeably intellectually disabled. He did succumb, likely to complications attendant on his accident, on 2 December 1716. The Dowager Viscountess appears to have withdrawn to Twickenham, the bohemian suburb on the upper banks of the Thames favoured by the nobility, and there immersed herself in literary society, introducing Alexander Pope to her uncle and entertaining Pope, John Gay and the playwright Thomas Southerne from time-to-time at Holme Lacy. Lady Scudamore died in 1729.
The couple had one daughter Frances (1711–c.1750), who married Henry Somerset, 3rd Duke of Beaufort, who divorced her in 1743 for adultery with William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot. She remarried to Charles FitzRoy-Scudamore, the illegitimate son of the 1st Duke of Grafton, and the couple had one daughter Frances (1750–1820), who married Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk - this marriage produced no heirs and eventually the Scudamore property reverted to a collateral descendant of the 1st Viscount.
The sitter appears to be around 25 to 35 years of age, and based on the stye of clothing and hair, and the Viscountess’ crown, the portrait was most likely painted between 1709, when Jervas returned to London, and 1719, the year of Lord Scudamor’s death.
Charles Jervas was born in Clonliske in Kings Country, Ireland in 1675. He received his artistic training in Kneller’s studio and was later, by the 1690’s, Kneller’s assistant. According to George Vertue, Jervas made small copies of the Raphael cartoons, then at Hampton Court, in about 1698 and sold them to raised funds to embark on the essential ‘grand tour’ of Europe in 1699. Taking in Paris and settling in Rome by 1703, he was known as “Carlo Jervasi” and was a “good, engenious painter”. On his return to London in 1709 Tatler (15th April 1709) remarked that he was 'the last great painter Italy has sent us' and noted that he “painted many ladies as shepherdesses and country girls”. The style that he cultivated made him Kneller's natural successor when that artist died in 1723.
In 1727 he married a widow, Penelope Hume, a lady of considerable means (£20,000). In September 1738 he travelled to Italy seeking some reprieve from his asthma, returning in May 1739. He died in November that year and the in following spring his considerable art collection was sold in 2265 lots in a sale lasting 9 days.
Apart from royalty Jervas gained the patronage of many of the ruling and intellectual elite. He moved in the highest circles of the literary and social world and became an intimate of Sir Robert Walpole and the poet Alexander Pope, to whom he gave drawing lessons.
Jervas’ portrait of Elizabeth Felton, of Playford, Later Countess of Bristol (1677-1741) realised £45,410 at Christies London 11th June 2002, lot 13. His portrait of Lady Barbara North realised £42,050 at Christies London 11th July 2008, lot 55.
Measurements: Height 148cm, Width 122cm framed (Height 58.25”, Width 48” framed
- Creator:Charles Jervas (1670 - 1739, Irish)
- Creation Year:c.1709-1719
- Dimensions:Height: 58.27 in (148 cm)Width: 48.04 in (122 cm)Depth: 3.15 in (8 cm)
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- Condition:This painting has passed a strict quality and condition assessment by a professional conservator prior to going on sale. It can be hung and enjoyed immediately.
- Gallery Location:London, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1199115723772
Charles Jervas
Charles Jervas was born in Dublin in 1675 who later lived in England. After moving to England, Jervas became an apprentice to the painter Sir Godfrey Kneller. He later studied drawing in Rome and then returned (c. 1709) to England. Succeeding Kneller, he became court painter to the English kings George I and George II. His home became a centre for literary figures, among them Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift, whose portraits Jervas painted, in addition to that of George II (1728). He produced a translation of Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote (published posthumously, with his surname spelled Jarvis, in 1742).
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